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A comment on Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016). Parent comment

Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by rhencke on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:53PM (#17606375)
And we'll call it something crazy, like a Linux distribution!
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by flukus on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:15AM (#17607202)
A linux distro is a bunch of package metadata and binaries, they don't push the code of every package into one repository.
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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by dmoy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:17AM (#17607050)
No if it's Google that's much too reasonable of a name, you have to prefix and/or suffix a bunch of stuff on there.
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